Editor’s Blog

In Altadena, California is a street lined with tall deodar trees rising 30 ft. and higher. At night, the trees’ branches seem to arch over the eight or so blocks of Santa Rosa Ave. that each December is known as Christmas Tree Lane. For most years since 1920, the deodars — a tree native to […]

Last night, we paid our respects to a young man who was changed by the world, in some ways for the better, in others for the worse. At a memorial service for Clay Hunt in Sacred Heart Chapel, we experienced the awful ambiguity of an event that was equal parts grief and gratitude. Clay Hunt, […]

On Sunday, March 27, a small, frail woman with a big story came to LMU: Marthe Cohn, spy. Cohn, born in 1920, is a French Jew who was raised in a family that spoke German as well as they spoke French. Her fluency made her valuable in the Second World War to French intelligence officers, […]

On the second floor of University Hall hangs a photograph of the Loyola College groundbreaking celebration of May 20, 1928. A temporary stage hovers in the background, while benches and folding chairs, cars parked haphazardly and people fitted out in their finest populate the picture from the far-away to the foreground. From other photos of […]

Four African American men who helped change U.S. history and who live in Los Angeles testified about their experiences in the Civil Rights movement at a documentary screening on campus this past week: Robert Farrell, Michael Grubbs, Claude Liggins and Robert Singleton, professor in the LMU Department of Economics. The four were Freedom Riders in […]

This past Sunday, a woman who devoted 25 years of her life to LMU was honored when the Campus Ministry suite in the basement of Sacred Heart Chapel was dedicated. The suite has been named for Agnes Marie Schon, C.S.J., who was the first female campus minister at the university. Schon came to Westchester in […]

During the past few weeks, I’ve become enamored with the films of Yasujiro Ozu, a Japanese filmmaker. He made seminal movies about post-World War II Japan, including “Late Spring” and “Early Summer,” two I’ve seen recently. I’m attracted to his films because, at least in those movies, he confronts change and family relationships. Ozu’s “Late […]

I have a confession to make: I really don’t have a major problem with Saint Mary’s College. And while I’m at it, this: I used to be on their payroll. It’s true: I once was a writer for their university magazine. Tonight is the kick-off of West Coast Conference play for our (LMU, that is) […]

Universities are considered places of texts and stories, but a foundational story was told in bronze this past week. A sculpture symbolizing the mission of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary was unveiled Nov. 13 at the Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture and the Arts. Located in a small garden outside the institute’s […]

The editor of this university’s magazine did not attend this university. The editor of this university’s magazine occasionally regrets that. He particularly feels it at the university’s annual Alumni Reunion Weekend, which is occurring this very weekend. Last night, the editor was invited to sit in on part of the dinner reception for the graduates […]